lickern.
/ˈlɪkə/, U.S. /ˈlɪkər/ a. One who or something which licks; spec. in sense 6a of the verb. Also licker-up; in silver-plating = lick-up n. (a) at lick v. Compounds.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with mouth or tongue > [noun] > licking with tongue > one who or that which licks
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1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 305/1 Lykkare, or he þat lykkythe, lecator.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Licker, lictor.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 999 Plated manufacture..The under face of the stamp~hammer has a plate of iron called the licker-up fitted into it.
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxxviii Being acquiescent lickers-up of ministerial dishonour.
1894 A. Morrison Martin Hewitt ii. 66 ‘There's no footprint here nor outside.’.. ‘That's a licker,’ he said.
1895 J. T. Clegg Wks. I. 375 Iv that's ony credit to Walsden it's a licker to me!
1898 Daily News 4 Apr. 8/3 The licker of red-hot irons was briskly following his profession.
1902 Eng. Dial. Dict. III. 587/1 Fatther, this sum is a licker; will yo' du it for mha?
1907 Daily Chron. 31 July 4/7 The licking his Majesty once suffered..[and] the half-crown the late Queen gave the licker for his pluck.
1908 A. S. M. Hutchinson Once aboard Lugger vi. viii. 456 Into a chair Bill collapsed... He gasped ‘George, this is a licker, a fair licker.’
b. licker-in, the cylinder in a carding-machine which receives the cotton, wool, etc., from the feed-rollers and passes it on to the main cylinder. Also attributive.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > machine > roller or cylinder
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1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 198 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI I do not claim a licker-in, nor the first main cylinder as such.
1867 Ure's Dict. Arts I. 922 The cotton is delivered by the feed rollers to the licker-in.
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted 84 To assist the process..the licker-in rollers are sometimes made hollow, and steam is allowed to fill them.
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 195 B is the licker-in, and A the angle stripper between the licker-in and the doffer.
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted v. 83 The burrs..lie along the fibres of wool... To clear them off, burring rollers are fixed on the top of two of the lickers-in.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 659/1 Against the lickerin revolves the ‘angle-stripper’, the function of which is to remove the wool..and deliver it over to the great breast cylinder.
1892 J. Nasmith Students' Cotton Spinning 132 It is customary to cover the licker-in with a set of teeth... These are called ‘Garnett’ teeth.
1946 A. J. Hall Standard Handbk. Textiles iii. 101 The cotton in lap form from the scutching machine is fed on to one of the small rollers (termed the licker-in).
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